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I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun

"I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun"
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Single by Cat Stevens
B-side "School is Out"
Released 24 March 1967
Format 7"
Genre Baroque pop, folk pop
Length 2:16
Label Decca/Deram
Writer(s) Cat Stevens
Producer(s) Mike Hurst
Cat Stevens singles chronology
"Matthew and Son"
(1966)
"I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun"
(1967)
"A Bad Night"
(1967)

"I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun" is a song that Cat Stevens wrote, composed, and recorded in 1967, and was produced by Mike Hurst of Decca Records's recently added Deram Records label. It was released as a 45 in the UK, reaching number 6 in the UK Singles Chart, and it was featured on U.S pressings of his debut album Matthew and Son.

The song's protagonist is a young man who means to obtain a gun, out of frustration with his grinding, unfulfilling work and the lack of respect he apparently receives from his co-workers. The selection can be perceived as a kind of sequel to "Matthew and Son."

“I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun” was written, composed, and originally released in the middle 1960s, years before workplace violence became a major problem in the United States.

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